After the success of Day 1, we were all looking forward to a second day of taking new profile pictures for our colleagues here at Sage; and it didn’t disappoint. We didn’t have our ‘enforcer’ Andy Thompson with us this time as he chose to take a holiday – In reality, I just think he didn’t want more pictures taken of him and shared on the Intranet. Luckily, we had Dan Griffin on hand to fill in and a decent job he did too:

As is tradition now, here is Dan helping us with the test shots before our booked in customers arrive. Dan is also a keen photographer; taking some images as the day went on and learning from the more experienced photographers.

Dan captured the following shot of Paul Vincent and I running through the list of colleagues we’d be photographing and planning the morning out.

We managed to get around 30 profile pictures taken throughout the morning with Stuart Kindness and I taking the pictures supported by Paul and Dan, you can see Stuart Sharing some of the images he’s taken with one of our colleagues. We tried to work with each person to take a few different shots and help them chose the best one to be edited.

Stuart has the benefit of being taller than I am; some of our colleagues here at Sage towered above me, so I did have to improvise to get a picture from a level playing field 🙂

As you can see, Stuart didn’t have the same issues, able to comfortably photograph most people without any issues

Unfortunately, we didn’t get pictures taken of everyone that wanted one due to holidays, travel arrangements and time. To try and make sure we didn’t let anyone down, we booked one last session to clear our waiting list.

You can see some of examples of the profile pictures people received below:

Day 1 of the ByteNight Headshots

The ByteNight team have been busy this week taking new profile pictures for our colleagues here at North Park to help raise money for the Action for Children ByteNight sleep out on 06 October 2017; where 50+ Sage colleagues and customers will be part of a much bigger community sleeping out to raise money and awareness surrounding vulnerable young people forced to sleep rough.

This is the 2nd year that Sage have been involved in this worthwhile cause and continuing the theme of the actual sleep out, we tried to have fun raising money. Whilst there is a serious underlying message surrounding ByteNight the actual sleep out and fund raising is an opportunity for us to get together as a team and use some of our hidden skills, whether it be baking or in this case, photography (certainly for me, my pictures are better than my cakes!) and enjoy ourselves a little.

We had three photographers on the day, supported by our beautiful assistant Andrew Thompson pictured above having his photograph taken by Paul Davey.

Colleagues based at North Park paid £10 to have their new profile picture taken and so far, the feedback has been great. Each person received a warm welcome from Andrew, aptly named “The Enforcer” for the day. He made sure everyone had paid and was directed to their position ready in plenty of time.

Then, it’s the serious business of the photograph, and of course it’s not a Sage Foundation event without someone taking pictures and tweeting about the whole event… Queue our “Enforcer” in there with his phone making sure he’s all over social media and everyone’s aware of what’s happening.

Each person then had an opportunity to review their photographs and work with their photographer to choose their favourite to be edited and emailed to them soon after

This was also a great opportunity for the photographers to develop their skills. We had a range of experienced and less experienced photographers available on the day who helped each other out to make sure that each paying customer received the best picture they could

Once we’d completed the shoots – We got down to editing these pictures. Most people don’t realise this is where the real work is, the image straight out of the camera generally looks pretty flat and lifeless, the digital editing process is the new darkroom of photography and allows each photographer to demonstrate their own flare and make sure everyone looks their best. Some of our victims models were kind enough to let us share their images to show what was achieved on the day. If you’d like a new profile picture, we running another session on 01 August 17 and looking forward to raising more money for Action for Children.